Rhombus Space -- New Gallery in Red Hook

www.rhombusspace.com

183 Lorraine Street

3rd Floor of the Art Spaces/Studio Complex
Red Hook

Jessica Campbell, YEAH NO TOTALLY, 

varying materials and size, 2012/2013

Poetry Slam exhibit (closed)

Ann Stewart, Tethering Corollaries II,
etching and aquatint on paper, 18 x 24"
Fine Lines exhibit (open Oct. 18)

Samuel Jablon, Poet Sculpture, variable 

dimensions, enamel on plywood, 2013

Poetry Slam exhibit (closed)

Katerina Lanfranco -- artist, curator and founder of Rhombus Space, in Red Hook -- is excited to be able to showcase and promote the work of artists whom she sees as truly contributing to the contemporary art dialogue. She opened Rhombus Space on September 20th of this year, and just wrapped up the space's first show, Poetry Slam, which closed Sunday, October 13. The show explored four artists' use of text in their visual art, and pieces included paintings, drawings, sculpture, installation and video. Featured artists were: damali abrams (lower case intentional), Jessica Campbell, Samuel Jablon, and Mwamba-Salim Wilson.

Lanfranco says that what gives Rhombus Space it's strength is "the dialogue that emerges from the grouping in each show", and invites people to not only focus on the individual artists and works, but on how they interact, how they compliment and inform each other.

Rhombus Space's forthcoming show, Fine Lines, is slated to open October 18, and aims to carry patrons "between familiar form and elegant abstraction" by exploring line as the primary artistic element and building block of the works shown. Featured artists will be Helen Dennis, Nils Folke Anderson, Jason Peters, and Ann Stewart, each of whom utilizes architectonic design and architectural references in their work, with the aim to bring the world of line and shape that is all around us into new and unexpected perspectives. Works will range from painting, drawing and printmaking to photography and sculpture.

Lanfranco is also hugely pleased to announce that the gallery will be participating in the Gowanus Open Studios event this weekend. The event is free, and will be open October 19 and 20, 12-5pm. Many of the other spaces and studios in the 183 Lorraine Street complex will be opening their doors for the event, so bring some snacks, some friends, yourself (or any combination thereof!) and enjoy some great hours of art absorption.

A few more teasers from Fine Lines:

Nils Anderson, Untitled, Acrylic on canvas, 7"x21"

Nils Anderson,Bench, Painted wood, 17"x13"x48"

Helen Dennis, Grand Central, NYC, photographic drawing, 40 x 48"

Jason Peters, untitled, silver ink on black paper, 11 by 11 by 16.5

Poetry Slam (closed)

September 20 -- October 13, 2013 

More information about this show and the artists can be found at:
http://rhombusspace.blogspot.com/2013/09/rhombus-space-presents-poetry-slam-w.html

Fine Lines
October 18 -- November 17, 2013
Reception: Friday October 18
6:00-8:00 PM
More information about this show and the artists can be found at:
http://rhombusspace.blogspot.com/2013/10/rhombus-space-presents-fine-lines.html

Gowanus Open Studios
October 19 -- 20, 1013
12:00-- 5:00 PM
More information about this event can be found at:
http://artsgowanus.org/gowanus-open-studios

New Show Opening at Clayworks

News from Clayworks...

We are excited to announce the first joint exhibition of drawings and sculptures by Bonnie Levine and Naomi Hudson-Knapp on March 24th from 4-8pm. Mark your calendars and join us at Clayworks on Columbia! Preview our work by going to Naomi's blog, nhudsonknapp.blogspot.com. 

bonnie levine

naomi hudson-knapp

paper and clay

opening reception

saturday, march 24, 4-8pm

Clayworks on Columbia

195 columbia street

brooklyn, ny 11231

gallery open by appointment or during studio hours

contact bonnie or naomi at claygurl@gmail.com or nhudsonknapp@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Bonnie and Naomi

Stroll over to a gallery opening.

Friday night there's a new show opening at Work gallery on Union and Van Brunt.

New Works by: YUSUKE NISHIMURA

Opening Friday July 8th, 2011, 6-10PM

Artists Talk Sunday July 18th 2011 @ 6PM

WORK Gallery is pleased to announce a solo show by New York based artist Yusuke Nishimura. Through a combination of thoughtfully elegant composition and cool observation, Nishimura creates photographs that are records and impressions of time, space, and light. In the two series shown, Tracing Paper and Shadow, Nishimura delves further into ambiguities, as his investigations of immaterial elements yield photographs with such a sense of physicality, that they feel almost more sculptural than flat, two dimensional documents.

WORK Gallery presents Low Fat Pop

LOW FAT POP

New Sculptures and Installation by:

JAN MOLLET

Opening
Friday May 13th
6 – 10 PM

Artists Talk
Sunday May 22nd @ 6PM

Read more about the exhibition here.

WORK Gallery is located on Union street at the corner of Van Brunt.

Opening Hours: Sat May 14th - Sun May 15th 12 -6 PM, Friday May 20th - Sunday May 22nd 12-6 PM

New at WORK

SPACIAL SMARTS

NEW PAINTINGS and SCULPTURES by KRISTINE TAYLOR

OPENING APRIL 29th, 7 - 10PM
ARTISTS TALK MAY 1st @ 6PM

WORK Gallery presents Spatial Smarts, a solo exhibition encompassing over 6 years of the paintings, drawings, and sculptures by the artist Kristine Taylor. In this extensive and varied body of abstract work, Taylor portrays scenarios of control and release arising from short and intense physical, psychological, and emotional events. Taylor, a former competitive diver and Southern California native, draws on these potent memories of athletic performance, the peculiarities of southwestern space and light, architectural features and the SoCal lifestyle to create an artistic vocabulary that is both poetically gestural and cooly diagrammatic.

Drawing Blood opening at WORK - tomorrow 5/1

DRAWING BLOOD

May 1 – May 28, 2010
Opening Reception Saturday, May 1, 6-9pm

ERIC AYOTTE – ELIZA MYRIE – OWEN RUNDQUIST – KARIN STOTHART – BRIAN ZEGEER Curated by KATHLEEN SMITH

WORK gallery is on Union Street at the corner of Van Brunt.

Open Call for Artists at Work/Wassaic

WORK/WASSAIC : I HEART ART

OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS TO SUBMIT WORK

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: MARCH 25, 2010

Work Gallery and The Wassaic Project team up again in 2010!

Submit work of any genre to be exhibited at the red tin shack on April 17th, 2010 for our Spring fundraiser. All work will be donated to the two organizations and the proceeds will benefit the exciting duo.

RED Hook Holiday Specials 12/18-12/20

The RED group is back at it again with a wide range of specials being offered throughout the weekend of 12/18-12/20 (RED = Red Hook Economic Development). Restaurants, shops, and galleries all have something to offer.

The flyer below offers a full list of participating businesses and the specials that they're offering (click the image for a larger version):

DO I MOVE YOU, ARE YOU WILLING at WORK

WORK Gallery presents

DO I MOVE YOU, ARE YOU WILLING

November 21 - December 14, 2009

a group exhibition of photography

opening SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 7-9PM.

Curated by JOSIE MINER, the exhibition features eight New York City based photographers whose works collectively consider the meditative quality of photography. Featuring a range of representational and abstract imagery, the exhibition explores the ephemeral and enigmatic interstices of life and offers an opportunity for reverie and feeling.

Featuring the works of Michael Ackerman, Mae Fatto, Allen Frame, Leila Hekmat, Allan MacIntyre, Mariah Robertson, Go Sugimoto, Hannah Whitaker.



More information about the exhibition and about Work Gallery here.

Nighttime is for Dreaming at Lucky Gallery

"Nighttime is for Dreaming"

at Lucky Gallery

opens October 9th and continues through October 31st
Red Hook, Brooklyn

The exhibition includes a series of events - an artist workshop, reception and performance. The exhibition features a collaboration of different mediums, including light, sound, photographic images and text.

Christoperh Coggiano's light installations of wire and handmade paper are brilliant colors of organic shapes. Ralph Maratta's black and white photographs "Big Dreams" are surrealistic dreamlike imagery inspired by the idea that humankind shares a bank of common symbols in our "universal unconscious". Alix Sorrell is collaborating with Maratta, interpreting his text and visually displaying it within context of the installation in the gallery."War of the Lightning Bugs" is providing an evolving experiment in spontaneous sound inspired by the repetition of each passing day, the aggressive tension of congested roadways, the peaceful dreaming of free time and the happiness of coming home on a Friday night. The soundtrack is a reaction to the imagery and themes of the photos and is used as a mechanism for triggering universal ideas and emotions.

Lucky Gallery is located at 176 Richards Street - Brooklyn, NY. 11231

For more info click here.

Chris Domenick at WORK

CHRIS DOMENICK: HIGH TIDE

SEPTEMBER 26 - OCTOBER 11, 2009

OPENING SATURDAY SEPT. 26, 2009, 7PM

WORK is pleased to present HIGH TIDE, a solo show of new works by Chris Domenick. The artist's large graphite and marker collages on paper are delicate, exploratory seascapes. Littered amongst likenesses of sunken manufacturing materials and dark gradations of shimmering graphite, a luminous sea life washes over the drawings' imagined ocean floor surfaces.

The appearance of abstraction and loosening of representational space are elements subdued by the subtlely of the artist's expert mark making. Domenick's carefully cast net catches the taut action of these scenes with a sweeping gestural grayscale, sparingly employing dashes of color as bait to lure in a viewer's gaze.
A series of 'high tide artifacts', collage studies in artist frames, accompany the large-scale works. HIGH TIDE is Chris Domenick's first solo show at WORK. He has previously had a one-person show at Jack the Pelican in Brooklyn in 2007 and a two-person show at WORK in 2008.



WORK is also pleased to present A DRIVE-IN 4, with a light show performace by Fluxus artist JEFFREY PERKINS and special guests, Saturday September 26 at 8:30PM in the empty lot across the street from WORK. More details to follow. Please join the artists for an evening of FREE art and entertainment at WORK, 65 Union Street (at Van Brunt), Brooklyn, NY, 11231.

Images from Work's site

A drive-in by WORK

On an empty lot at union st. & Van brunt

SUNDAY, JUNE 7 AT SUNDOWN

A DRIVE-IN II will occur Sunday night June 7th, 2009 at Approximate Dusk at the empty lot across the street from WORK Gallery: 65 Union Street @ Van Brunt, Brooklyn, NY.

A DRIVE-IN is a distinguished un-authorized projection party held sporadically at an empty lot in Red Hook, Brooklyn since 2008. Brought to you by WORK Gallery & CLEARCHANNEL (Walker Waugh, Jessie Stead & David Gatten).

The evening will feature casual outdoor projections of new and used 16mm film & video by different people onto big white semi-abandoned trailers. There will also be intermittent live music and other surprises, specific program TBA. No automobiles are required at A DRIVE-IN II. All transportation forms welcome especially rollerskates and rickshaws and cars too if you have one.

Watch a demo from the first A DRIVE-IN: http://www.jessiestead.com/adrivein.html